Re: [gentoo-user] preserved rebuild failure with python

[Dale]

allan gottlieb wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06 2016, Adam Carter wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:37 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I can't complete an emerge @preserved-rebuild due to the lack of
>>> python3.3.
>>>
>>> However, I read the news article and have set the python3 interpreter to
>>> python3.4
>>>
>>>    allan ~ # eselect python list --python3
>>>    Available Python 3 interpreters:
>>>      [1]   python3.3
>>>      [2]   python3.4 *
>>>    allan ~ # eselect python list
>>>    Available Python interpreters:
>>>      [1]   python2.7 *
>>>      [2]   python3.3
>>>      [3]   python3.4
>>>    allan ~ #
>>>
>>> Here is the output from emerge @preserved-rebuild
>>>
>>>    allan ~ # emerge @preserved-rebuild
>>>
>>>    These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>>>
>>>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>
>>>    emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.3".
>>>    (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
>>>
>> Something appears to want 3.3 specifically, not 3.x. Try adding -v to
>> emerge to try to work out which package it is, then check the ebuilds of
>> other versions to see if there's one that's not dependent on 3.3.
> The -v had no effect (I assume you meant to add it as below)
>
>    allan ~ # emerge -v @preserved-rebuild
>
>    These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>    emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.3".
>    (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
>
> thanks,
> allan
>
> PS adding --ignore-default-opts made no difference
>
>


I'm not sure but I think he meant the -t option.  That should show what
is pulling in what. 

Dale

:-)  :-)